Department of Agriculture's wildlife hit list

June 20, 2014 |Compiled by Brian Reynolds

More than 700,000 wild animals, half of them in Texas, were exterminated last year by the wildlife services managers at the U.S. Agriculture Department. From invasive species like European starlings to natvies like coyotes, the federal agency has come under fire for the rising national toll on wildlife in the last six years. Read more about the agency's reasoning and the cost of this work in Mike Ward's investigation on HoustonChronicle.com. See the numbers of of each species that were killed below.